“Love can be exploited, I guess, used to manipulate. It's leverage. But I would never call loving someone else a weakness. I think living without love at all, any kind of love, is weakness. And the worst kind of darkness.”
― War Storm
― War Storm
“Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.”
― The Kiss of Deception
― The Kiss of Deception
“Until one comes who is mightier,
The one sprung from misery,
The one who was weak,
The one who was hunted,
The one marked with claw and vine,
The one named in secret,
The one called Jezelia.”
― The Kiss of Deception
The one sprung from misery,
The one who was weak,
The one who was hunted,
The one marked with claw and vine,
The one named in secret,
The one called Jezelia.”
― The Kiss of Deception
“Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.”
― The Kiss of Deception
― The Kiss of Deception
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